My word! the young lady will have a chance of roughing it, for the portages on that route are a caution, so Astor says," Mrs.M'Kree answered, then fairly danced round the room.
"Just fancy how gay we shall be this summer with a young lady fresh out from England among us! And her father must be just the right sort of moneyed gentleman, for he wants Astor to get a little hut ready for him by the middle of June." "A what ?" Katherine had risen to go, and was buttoning her coat, but faced round upon the little woman with blank surprise in her face, as if she failed to understand what the other was saying.
"A hut.

They will want some sort of a place to live in.

There is no hotel here, you see, and they are going to stay all summer.
What a pity it is you haven't got room to board them at the store!" "We don't want them," retorted Katherine quickly.

"We have quite enough to do without having to wait on a lot of idle boarders." "Oh! I don't fancy they will be very idle, for Mr.Selincourt says that he and his daughter intend being out a great deal among the fishers," said Mrs.M'Kree, who still kept dipping into the letter, and besought her visitor to stay until she had read it all.
But Katherine would not wait; she was in a hurry to start on the return journey, for every hour now would make the snow surface more wet and rotten to travel over.

She was sick at heart, too, and suffering from the keenest disappointment.